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Title: Municipalities: Brasil, 1900

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2011
  • Coverage: 1900

Publishers

  • Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

Summary

This point shapefile shows the locations of municipalities in Brazil in 1900. These data were created using a custom World Polyconic Projection. This layer is part of the Evolução da divisão territorial do Brasil 1872 - 2010 dataset, a collection of data representing the evolution of Brazilian states, municipalities and cities. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. (2011). Municipalities: Brasil, 1900. IBGE. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/fm553yv7006 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Location
  • Brazil
  • Municipal government
  • Cities and towns
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-68.872661, -34.855079, 2.819543, -33.517148)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-68.872661, -34.855079, 2.819543, -33.517148)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Municipalities: Brasil, 1900. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Point data. https://purl.stanford.edu/fm553yv7006

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English